Software Engineer

About the job

Coats is a world leader in thread manufacturing and structural components for apparel and footwear, as well as an innovative pioneer in performance materials.

Trusted by the world's leading companies to deliver crucial, innovative, and sustainable solutions, we provide value-adding products including apparel, footwear and specialty threads.

With a proud heritage dating back more than 250 years and a spirit of evolution to constantly stay ahead of changing market needs, we have operations across 50 countries with a workforce of over 17,000, serving our customers worldwide.

Coats Footwear

Headquartered in the UK, Coats* connects talent, textiles, and technology to make a better and more sustainable world.

For more info, visit our website: www.coats.com

Job Title - Software Engineer

Location - Madurai

Role Purpose

This role will be responsible for carrying out development of mobile applications in Android, iOS and Hybrid platforms. The focus of this position will be on development, enhancement and support of mobile applications in Coats.

Principal Accountabilities and Key Activities

• Writing, testing and maintaining quality code for mobile applications.
• Collaborating closely with back-end developers in the team.
• Working as part of a small, empowered cross-functional team to deliver business value.
• Investigating and resolving defects in development, test, and production environments.
• Helping to define, maintain and improve our mobile applications architecture and best practices.
• Operational support, including maintaining service availability, post-mortem of events, maintaining play books.
• Improving performance of applications.
• Integrating mobile applications with other web based transactional systems.

Education, Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Degree in computer science, IT or equivalent.
• 4–6 years’ Experience in building hybrid and native mobile applications.
• Experience with profiling and debugging mobile applications.
• Hands-on experience in React Native.
• Experience on XCode, Android Studio, Android Libraries, WebStorm, Flutter, Firebase / FireStore.
• Experience of working in SQLite and Ignite.
• Experience of writing automated tests in Jest, Enzyme.
• Hands on experience in App submissions on App Store and Play Store.
• Desire to work closely with the business, learn new things and teach others.
• Ability to take ownership of a feature or issue, analyse it and solve problems not faced before.

Desirable

• MobX-state-tree, Story book, Detox.
• Frameworks such as Cordova, Xamarin, Cocoa Touch, AVFoundation, CoreData, CoreGraphics, CoreText of iOS, Activity, Fragment etc.
• Major UI components like RecyclerView, PageViewer etc.
• Build tools like Maven, Gradle
• RESTful services.
• TypeScript, Node JS, Express.
• Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective C.

At Coats Group, we are committed to innovation, excellence, and fostering a diverse and collaborative environment where every team member can thrive. If you are passionate about making an impact in the textile industry and eager to join a global leader with a rich heritage and a forward-thinking approach, we invite you to take the next step in your career with us.

Apply now to be part of our dynamic team and help shape the future of textiles.